Hey (Rick I want to say but it's) David
I read it too. How neat to track down what may be one of htge few
copies in existence, & then to read & pass judgement....
Doug
Quoting "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Heyrick being from Leicester the County Records Office held a copy: after
> about half-an-hour of searching the archivist found the copy of his book,
> mouldering spine and long esses and all, printed in London with a preface
> dated Leicester August 18th 1797 declaring of the Author and his offering
> that 'the poems were in the Prefs, ... when it pleafed God to remove him
> from all earthly concerns'.
>
> John Heyrick has been accused of the role of inventor of a local legend of
> Black Annis and her Bower (Robert Graves alludes to it in The White Goddess)
> but having read his slim volume in full I feel confident that imagination is
> something of which he could not be accused. He really is repeating, if with
> a bit of stage-paint, a local legend. He's an aimiable dabbler in verses for
> friends, family, and A Young Lady named Eliza, or Betsy. This is something
> like his best:
>
> LINES addressed to a LADY
>
> When you compel the bird of night
> To view the sun with eagle's eye,
> Or with his bold undaunted flight
> To penetrate the noon-day sky,
>
> Then under the same soft control,
> In polish'd strains I'll learn to trace,
> The countless virtues of thy soul,
> The countless beauties of thy face.
>
>
> Not so bad for a soldier, eh? (I suppose Robin Hamilton might
> read this, if no-one else)
>
> 2009/10/6 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> My own copy of the Chadwyck-Healy database has failed to deliver the needed
>> at its very first serious test: I was looking for the text of 'First
>> Flights' a volume by John Heyrick junior (1742-1797) published in London
>> 1797 and it has nothing by this distant relative (I think) of Robert Herrick
>> and (definite, I'm sure) of the (lesser-known than Robert) 17th century
>> Thomas Heyrick.
>> I can find references to inaccesible microfilm copies of the book. Any
>> clues anyone?
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
>> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>>
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> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>
>
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